Sean Michael Kerner

The cloud is an amorphous technological construct with varying degrees of performance and availability, depending on the location and the network of the end user. That’s where the Cedexis Radar cloud app performance and benchmarking service comes into play, providing users with visibility into cloud availability and performance metrics. Marty Kagan, co-founder and CEO of […]

In recent years, nearly every time I’ve seen the National Security Agency at a security event (they’re usually out in a recruiting capacity), they bring an Enigma machine. The Enigma is a code generating machine built by the German military that was cracked by the U.S military, and it played an important role in helping […]

Every organization today faces a similar set of challenges about implementing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) practices, secure access measures and new technology deployment. When you’re the CIO of a technology vendor, those challenges are magnified, as subject matter experts on any and every choice that the CIO has to make, are plentiful and often vocal. That’s the […]

Meeting government compliance regulations is often a complex task—one that Hewlett-Packard wants to help enterprises achieve. That’s where HP’s Data Privacy Services come into play as a new suite of services that are intended to help enable enterprises meet some of the complex demands of the modern regulatory environment. The new offering is intended to […]

A new version of the open-source PostgreSQL database is now available, providing improved reliability and data management features. PostgreSQL is a widely deployed open-source database with roots that go back to 1985 and the UC Berkeley Postgres database project. One of the key new features in PostgreSQL 9.3 is a capability known as Streaming-Only Remastering. […]

There is always a lot of talk about the word “open” in tech circles, especially when it comes to the cloud. After all, no one wants to be locked in and shackled to a “closed” system, right? On Monday, Sept. 9, my friend James Maguire, managing editor at Datamation, is hosting a Google Hangout on […]

Dropbox is a widely used cloud-based storage platform that is now the target of security researcher scrutiny, as user data privacy is being called into question. A pair of researchers at the USENIX security conference in August released a white paper in which they describe methods for attacking Dropbox and obtaining user data. While the […]

Every day, we all use passwords to access our email, our servers, our systems—our digital lives. They are often the only thing that stands between our (limited) privacy and anyone/anywhere getting access to our digital selves. This week, I’ve seen two very different and interesting developments in the world of passwords. SecurityCoverage Inc. is now […]

The open-source Apache Traffic Server is hitting a major milestone with the release of a new version and a new road map for future development. The Apache Traffic Server was originally donated to the Apache Software Foundation by Yahoo and is a caching proxy server that can speed up the delivery of Web server content. […]

The open-source LibreOffice office productivity suite—a widely deployed application on Linux operating systems with development led by The Document Foundation—is gaining new backing today with the launch of commercial support from Collabora Productivity. SUSE Linux has been one of the key contributors to LibreOffice since its inception in September 2010. LibreOffice got its start as […]

The fourth major milestone release in 2013 of the open-source Linux kernel is now out, providing users with improved performance and new capabilities, including support for the Lustre filesystem. Among the big new items included in the Linux 3.11 kernel is the initial support for the Lustre filesystem. Lustre is a widely deployed high-performance computing […]

Thanks to support vendor Emerge Open, the Kubuntu Linux distribution now has its own commercial support for those users and enterprises that need or want it. Kubuntu is the KDE desktop version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution that is commercially supported by Canonical. The primary Ubuntu Linux distribution is based on the GNOME Linux desktop. […]